Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/24/2018 01:34 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 12:00 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: You have to know the format of the zoneinfo directory for this to work. Like start with Am to get American cities. Not start with H for Helsinki; all you get is Hongkong and HST. And

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 12:00 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > You have to know the format of the zoneinfo directory for this to work. > Like start with Am to get American cities. Not start with H for > Helsinki; all you get is Hongkong and HST. > > And you have to know a city in the list

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/24/2018 11:44 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: Den 2018-08-24 kl. 16:46, skrev Ed Greshko: On 08/24/18 22:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 08/24/2018 10:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/24/18 21:44, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: Anyway, were I to land in

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2018-08-24 kl. 16:46, skrev Ed Greshko: > On 08/24/18 22:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> >> On 08/24/2018 10:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> On 08/24/18 21:44, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: > Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/24/18 22:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 08/24/2018 10:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 08/24/18 21:44, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: >>> Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would google "helsinki timezone" learn it is

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/24/2018 10:16 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/24/18 21:44, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would google "helsinki timezone" learn it is currently "summer time" there and it is GMT+3.  So, I would do

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/24/18 21:44, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: > >> Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would google "helsinki timezone" >> learn it >> is currently "summer time" there and it is GMT+3.  So, I would do >> "timedatectl >> set-timezone

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/24/2018 09:44 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would google "helsinki timezone" learn it is currently "summer time" there and it is GMT+3.  So, I would do "timedatectl set-timezone Etc/GMT-3".  I

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:40:13 +0800, you wrote: >Anyway, were I to land in Helsinki today I would google "helsinki timezone" >learn it >is currently "summer time" there and it is GMT+3.  So, I would do "timedatectl >set-timezone Etc/GMT-3".  I could not find a way to do that in the KDE GUI. 

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 07:00 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/system-config-date/c/876438de1c42f10815081853775b4aa555def56e?branch=master "Package not actively developed anymore." (Note: I

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/23/2018 11:32 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/18 23:05, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Actually, I typically set my timezone for my destination while in the air so that the emails I am writing and will send as soon as I am connected show that I am where I said I would be.  So I COULD google

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/18 23:05, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Actually, I typically set my timezone for my destination while in the air so > that > the emails I am writing and will send as soon as I am connected show that I am > where I said I would be.  So I COULD google before I leave.  I am just > comfortable

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora 29 beta. See my bug report: 1583850 BTW, I am using the Xfce desktop. Would using timedatectl from the command line be sufficient for you? No. We had this discussion

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora 29 beta. See my bug report: 1583850 BTW, I am using the Xfce desktop. Would using timedatectl from the command line be sufficient for you? No. We had

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
;>> I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too >>>> long and >>>> jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora >>>> 29 beta. >>>> See my bug report: 1583850 >>>> >>>

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
>>> >>>> I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too >>>> long and >>>> jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora >>>> 29 beta. >>>> See my bug report: 1583850 >

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/23/2018 10:17 AM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:00:59 -0400, you wrote: Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:00:59 -0400, you wrote: >Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? > >I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit >too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it >in the Fedora 29 beta.  Se

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too >>> long and >>> jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora >>> 29 beta. >>> See my bug report: 1583850 >>> >>> BTW, I am using the Xfce desktop. >> >> Would using timedatectl

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/18 21:33, Ed Greshko wrote: > Hope the F25 rpm works for you. Oh, since it has been a long time since I changed my laptop's time zone, I just recalled I would change it to Etc/GMT(+-)whatever so as not to care about the city. -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
d on 24 a bit too >>> long and >>> jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora >>> 29 beta. >>> See my bug report: 1583850 >>> >>> BTW, I am using the Xfce desktop. >> >> Would using timedatectl fro

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/23/2018 07:42 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 08/23/18 19:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see

Re: system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Ed Greshko
On 08/23/18 19:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? > > I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too > long and > jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora 29 > beta.  &

system-config-date?

2018-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is there some reason this was dropped from Fedora? I had it up to Fedora 24, and see it was in 25.  I stayed on 24 a bit too long and jumped to 28 and no system-config-date, and I do not see it in the Fedora 29 beta.  See my bug report: 1583850 BTW, I am using the Xfce desktop. thanks

Re: config date

2011-01-04 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 01/04/2011 09:37 AM, Felix Miata wrote: snip The way I read that bug, my problem on first glance seemed opposite: current UTC: 14:29 local time: 09:29 Rawhide time: 04:27 Nevertheless, systemctl enable hwclock-load.service fixed it. Thanks for the pointer to that bug, which long ago as

config date

2011-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date seems to require X (depends on gnome-python2-canvas; RuntimeError: could not open display), which ATM will not start on my system, while each boot corrupts the time in the amount of the TZ offset. -- How much better to get

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/01/03 18:33 (GMT-0500) Paolo Galtieri composed: On 01/03/11 18:55, Felix Miata wrote: Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date seems to require X (depends on gnome-python2-canvas; RuntimeError: could not open display), which ATM will not start on my

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On 01/03/11 19:43, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/01/03 18:33 (GMT-0500) Paolo Galtieri composed: On 01/03/11 18:55, Felix Miata wrote: Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date seems to require X (depends on gnome-python2-canvas; RuntimeError: could not open

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 05:55:29PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date is doing more than just setting a time zone but if you want to do only that then there are many such tools and one possible is known as '/bin/cp'. Just copy

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:43 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/01/03 18:33 (GMT-0500) Paolo Galtieri composed: On 01/03/11 18:55, Felix Miata wrote: Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date seems to require X (depends on gnome-python2-canvas; RuntimeError

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/01/03 18:18 (GMT-0700) Michal Jaegermann composed: Felix Miata wrote: Is there another cmdline date configuration tool? system-config-date is doing more than just setting a time zone but if you want to do only that then there are many such tools and one possible is known as '/bin

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:53:04PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Maybe the problem is that systemd doesn't know about any of this. I do not think that systemd is supposed to know anything about your time zone; I may miss something. According to chkconfig, ntpd is on, ntpd is designed to give up

Re: config date

2011-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/01/04 00:09 (GMT-0500) Michal Jaegermann composed: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:53:04PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Maybe the problem is that systemd doesn't know about any of this. I do not think that systemd is supposed to know anything about your time zone; I may miss something.